Moodnotes vs Mood Diary EMOLOG
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Moodnotes
This app helps you track your mood, identify triggers, and improve your thinking habits using principles of cognitive behavior therapy. It offers tools for self-awareness, reducing anxiety, and developing healthier perspectives for increased well-being.
- Track mood and identify triggers
- Automatic face scanning for mood capture
- Journaling with photos and notes
- Self-awareness articles by experts
- Develop healthier thinking habits
- Reduce anxiety and enhance well-being
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Don’t let your mood affect your life. Take control over it! Meet Moodnotes - a super easy mood tracker & journaling app to capture your mood and help you improve your thinking habits. Moodnotes empowers you to track your mood over time, avoid common thinking traps, and develop perspectives associated with increased happiness and well-being. Created by design experts and clinical psychologists (creators of MoodKit), Moodnotes is grounded in the scientifically-supported content of cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) and positive psychology. Includes Apple Watch app and iCloud sync/backup. KEY FEATURES: Moodnotes helps you to: - Track your mood and identify what triggers it - Scan your face automatically using device camera - Keep your memories with photos or pictures - Read self-awareness articles written by mental health experts - Develop healthier thinking habits - Learn about “traps” in your thinking and how to avoid them - Reduce anxiety and enhance your sense of well-being - Bring new, helpful perspectives to situations - Increase your self-awareness Exclusively featured by Apple in the App Store Today tab story "All The Feels". MOODNOTES PREMIUM Become a Premium member to unlock the following features: - Make unlimited entries per day - Monitor your personal statistics and check your mood insights - Add notes to enrich your mood entries - Get access to “Notable insights” section to learn more about your mood - Find more full-text articles to understand yourself * Subscription payments will be charged to your iTunes account at confirmation of your purchase. * Subscriptions will automatically renew and payment will be charged to your iTunes account unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours prior to the end of the current period. The cost of the renewal depends on your Subscription Plan. Our standard Subscription Plans are: * 1-month Subscription * 1-year Subscription * Subscription with a free trial period will automatically renew to a paid subscription. You can cancel or manage your free trial's auto-renewal in your Account Settings after purchase. The cancellation will take effect 24-hours after the last day of the current subscription period and you will be downgraded to the free service. * Please note: any unused portion of a free trial period (if offered) will be forfeited when you purchase a premium subscription during the free trial period. If you have any questions or suggestions on how we can improve the application, please do not hesitate to contact us at moodnotes@bendingspoons.com Privacy Policy: https://support.bendingspoons.com/privacy.html?app=1019230398 Terms of Service: https://support.bendingspoons.com/tos.html?app=1019230398
Mood Diary EMOLOG
Easily track your daily mood and feelings with simple taps or voice commands. Understand your emotional patterns through visual calendars and graphs to improve your mental well-being. Take the first step towards a more comfortable day by managing your emotions.
- Select and tap moods easily
- Record moods via Siri
- Daily mood and feeling notes
- Daily reminder notifications
- Calendar and emotion graphs
- Passcode privacy lock (paid)
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Now it's time to face myself. Let's start mental health care casually. The most simple way to improve your emotional wellbeing is here. It is easy to use. "Select and tap your current mood" just that. You can also record moods just by talking to Siri. Understand your own mental rhythm by tracking your daily mood and your small feelings. Whenever you have time, you can record as many times. "Emo-Log" is an app to control your emotions. ■ Features - To select from "Seven Moods" and record your feelings easily - Taking a little note like a diary - Setting reminder notification at a fixed time every day - Viewing a calendar and graphs of emotions - Protecting your privacy with a passcode lock(Paid feature) ■ Cases - When you want to manage and control your emotions - When you are interested in mental health - To face yourself - When you want to notice a habit of your thinking We know that life is not always so wonderfuling. Many things never work out as you expect in schools, workplaces, and various environments, and frustration, anxiety, anger accumulate and stress accumulates. However, the "frustration", "anxiety" and "anger" that is the source of stress is due to emotions yourself. In order to counter stress, it is important to face yourself, to understand your emotions and controling them. "Where is the cause of stress?" How about finding out them by putting in a habit of taking notes of your daily mood, and grasping your "mental of rhythm". "Emo-Log" helps the first step for you to spend a comfortable day. ==Premium Service Features== 1. Remove all ads in app 2. Viewing the daily graph 3. Viewing the monthly graph 4. Export all recorded data 5. Passcode lock setting ==Regarding Premium Service:== ・Subscription fee: $0.99/month, $2.49/3months, $9.49/year (tax-included) ・Premium service is optional and most of our features are free. ・Payment will be charged to iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase. ・Subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period. ・Account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period, and identify the cost of the renewal. ・Subscriptions may be managed by the user and auto-renewal may be turned off by going to the user’s Account Settings after purchase. ・Any unused portion of a free trial period, if offered, will be forfeited when the user purchases a subscription to that publication, where applicable. ==How to check/end your Premium membership== From App Store 1. Open AppStore 2. Tap account icon on the upper right corner 3. Select your Apple ID 4. Select Subscriptions 5. Select "Emo-Log" and choose "Cancel subscription" ==Privacy Policy== https://nf.noah2.com/emologapp/privacy-en/ ==Terms of Use== https://nf.noah2.com/emologapp/eula-en/ ==Contact== app.ios1802@gmail.com
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Moodnotes at none against Mood Diary EMOLOG's shown. Moodnotes also leads on ratings volume (11K vs 1) and update cadence (every 4 weeks vs every 4 months). Mood Diary EMOLOG's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.7). On price, review sentiment, in-app purchases and monetization model there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Moodnotes sells 11 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per 7 days and Mood Diary EMOLOG sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Mood Diary EMOLOG holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Moodnotes has 11K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 65% of Moodnotes's written reviews are positive against 67% of Mood Diary EMOLOG's.
Moodnotes ships an update every 4 weeks, Mood Diary EMOLOG every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on October 18, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Moodnotes | Mood Diary EMOLOG |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (11K ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 65.5% of reviews | 66.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 11K — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 weeks — better | Every 4 months |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 | 12.2 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 146 MB | 50 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Mosaic S.r.l. | Kazunori Fujita |
Customer experience
Moodnotes
Mood Diary EMOLOG
Bugs and requests
Moodnotes
Reported bugs
2 issues- Notification issues on iOS updates
- Occasional data loss or syncing problems
Requested features
4 requests- Add custom feelings and activities
- More detailed data visualization
- Integration with other health apps
- Offline mode for journaling
Mood Diary EMOLOG
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Moodnotes
- Moodnotes Pro$2.997 Days
- Moodnotes Pro - Free Trial7 Days trial$2.997 Days
- Moodnotes Premium 1 Month2 variants$9.991 Month
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- Moodnotes Premium 1 Month$14.991 Month
- Moodnotes Premium 1 Year7 Days trial$29.991 Year
- Moodnotes Premium 1 Year7 Days trial$34.991 Year
- Moodnotes Premium 1 Year1 Month trial$39.991 Year
- Moodnotes Premium 1 Year$69.991 Year
- Moodnotes Premium 1 Year7 Days trial$69.991 Year
- Moodnotes Pro - Free Trial7 Days trial$69.991 Year
- Moodnotes Premium 1 Year7 Days trial$89.991 Year
Mood Diary EMOLOG
- Premium7 Days trial$0.991 Month
- Premium 3 months7 Days trial$2.493 Months
- Premium One year7 Days trial$9.491 Year








